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Algiers · Beat 64 · permalink

Private office

20:50–20:59 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:5220:52Frame at 20:5420:54Frame at 20:5720:57

Play from 20:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 163–165. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, standing, gesturing with hands visible
  • man in light suit and fez, medium build, close-up visible
  • person with dark hair, partially visible, seated or crouched visible
Seen happening
  • Man in dark suit speaks and gestures toward another person. [frame:1]
  • Man in light suit and fez reacts with facial expression. [frame:2]
  • Man in dark suit continues speaking with open hand gestures. [frame:3]
Seen
framed pictures on wall [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], light suit and fez [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: negotiation, social hierarchy, disguised concern; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, formal framing

A man in a dark suit speaks to another person in a dimly lit room with framed pictures on the wall; he gestures with his hands while speaking. Another man in a light suit and fez appears in a close-up, reacting to the conversation.

“Fix it up. Permit me to hope that it's nothing serious. Thanks. A flea bite.” 20:52 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Algiers (1938) at 20:52 (passage 20:50–20:59); US record: No renewal found

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